Research on Methods of Distribution Center Facility Siting

Abstract

The so-called facility location means how to use scientific methods to determine the facility's location, so that the overall business operations and enterprise systems combine to effectively and economically achieve corporate business objectives. This paper introduces the Fuzhou Municipal Bureau of distribution center location tobacco case to be analyzed on the basis of this issue describes the significance of facility location, facility siting factors and principles are analyzed and siting of facilities the methods are summarized proposed general facility siting process steps, facility sitting decisions provide some guidance.

The Distribution of Emergency Logistics Centers under the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Case of Yangtze River Delta Area

“…Thus, the site selection of emergency logistics centers can be divided into continuous and discrete problems. For example, Xiong et al [10] used the gravity model to calculate the layout of independent facilities of logistics centers, as it is easier to establish a coordinate system by determining the relative distance between each site. A discrete solution, however, refers to the selection of the optimized point among several alternative locations by certain mathematical methods, such as P-center, P-median, maximum coverage, two-stage, integer planning, etc.…”

“…Equation (9) indicates that once the emergency logistics center is established, it has the ability to provide services with one or more than one points assigned to it. Equation (10) indicates that services can only be provided to the outbreak site through the emergency logistics center. Equation (11) indicates that one outbreak site is assigned to one established emergency logistics center service.…”

The Application of the Improved Jellyfish Search Algorithm in a Site Selection Model of an Emergency Logistics Distribution Center Considering Time Satisfaction

“…The earliest research on this can be traced back to the Webber problem proposed in 1909: the problem achieves the goal of the shortest total transportation distance between the warehouse and customer by studying the problem of a single warehouse location on the plane [ 6 ], which is the beginning of the early siting problem. In the 21st century, various scholars have studied the distribution center location problem by using various traditional methods such as the center-of-gravity method [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ] and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ]. However, traditional methods often have disadvantages such as large computational volume and low efficiency, which can bring some difficulties to the solution results.…”